Nationally recognized research firm Dalbar recently produced the results of a study on the overall performance effects of individual investor behavior.
An Audit Scotland study on the financial performance of the NHS found all 23 boards met their budget targets for the fourth year running in 2011-12.
Second, the study was based on the performance of indexes when in reality, the vast majority of mutual funds under-perform those indexes because of fees and trading costs.
An October 2012 Fast Company article reported on a July 2012 Credit Suisse study that tracked the performance of businesses worldwide since 2005 and found that companies with at least one woman on the board outperform companies with all-male boards by 26 percent.
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The study ranked states on their performance in four areas: the extent of child homelessness, the risk for it, child well-being and the state's policy and planning efforts.
In September, the journal Pediatrics published a widely circulated study linking shows like "SpongeBob" to kids' poor performance on tests of skills such as following rules.
The study found that in the hourly workforce, prior history of unemployment has no bearing on performance or attrition.
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Perhaps the most damning finding of all, though, comes from comparing the British study's results with those of the yet-to-be-published article on the performance of American mutual funds.
Here are some brief excerpts from a recent study by two Swedish economists, including a critically important observation about the impact of bigger government on economic performance.
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Noakes, a sports medicine researcher at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, draws on what little study there has been in performance-enhancing drugs, including some just-revealed data compiled by the former East Germany.
Although there is still limited empirical evidence on the relative performance of socially responsible investing in comparison to conventional investing, one 2000 study concluded that social mutual funds perform no better or worse than conventional mutual funds.
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But last year researchers at the University of Georgia found no benefit from the supplement in 30 healthy volunteers tested on seven different performance measures. (The study was funded by Coca-Cola, which apparently was thinking of launching its own quercetin supplement.) Lead researcher Kirk Cureton has tested 60 more patients since then, with the same null result.
According to a recent study by McKinsey and Company, companies with a higher than average proportion of women on their management committees deliver the best performance.
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